RoboCop (ENGLISH)

RoboCop (Basil Poledouris). The incorporation in the complete edition of the diegetic music created, for example, for the TV news, is a good decision, since its has not a dramatization function, it is music created by the composer as part of the global atmosphere of the film.

The combination of the sound of synthesizers together with the orchestra introduces to the listener the setting of a future in decadence, a setting that, in occasions, reminds to what later Jerry Goldsmith was doing with Total Recall, also a film of Dutch director Paul Verhoeven.

The expanded edition of 2004 only adds 4 short tracks. The edition of 2010 is more generous enough, although it seems to be too short if it is compared with other soundtrack complete editions.

2015 edition

In July, 2015, Milan Records does history on having commercialized a score of which a complete version had edited before in CD (in 2010 by Intrada), this time in multi format version: CD, digital and vinyl, and whose edition, in addition, has been mixed and mastered again for this occasion. The version in CD and digital contain the same art cover, and the vinyl version adds an art specially created for the same one. Being the vinyl format of soundtracks an article almost for collectors, the new covers will be very estimated by the unconditional ones of this format. With these characteristics (multi format edition, the complete score and special covers for the vinyl version) we might refer to this edition, without dread to on excelling ourselves, as the PERFECT EDITION.

With it, Milan Records establishes a precedent that should be imitated by all these editions of the record labels that only contemplate the edition of a complete or expanded soundtrack in CD and in limited issue to a few thousands of copies. Since we have commented in other occasions, it does not have sense that, in full digital age, the expanded editions continue reducing to limited issues in CD and that, passed a few years, it is more complicated to acquire the complete-modern edition than the small-classic edition.

Milan has done two things worth being praised: to commercialize the multi format and to do it in a regular way, that is to say, the edition in CD turns into the new standard edition of the RoboCop soundtrack (the vinyl edition is an issue of limited copies). This one is the first example of which universalize the complete edition of a classic soundtrack in multi format version, especially in the immortal and inexhaustible digital format, is possible.